New Scientist Magazine -22 April 2017 (NS220417)

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No.3122
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Leaders
Talk of a ‘localised nuclear conflict’ is ignorant and dangerous
We should stand together on science, all over the world
NEWS
UPFRONT
California’s wet year eases drought but many still lack water
More than 8 million people in the US have mental health problems
Distant DeeDee could be a new dwarf planet
Drone footage of coal dust leak on beaches may be overblown
Zika mosquito is spreading worldwide but WHO wants to stop it
Satellites swarms could increase space junk risk by 50 per cent
Environment agency chief says US should exit Paris climate deal
60 Seconds
NEWS & TECHNOLOGY
Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladus’s sea
Psychedelic drug ayahuasca improves hard-to-treat depression
Virtual syringe lets surgeons practise piercing skin and muscle
Soldier ants carry comrades wounded in raids back to base
Start-up uses biometrics to tailor music for good night’s sleep
Odds that Tasmanian tigers are still alive are 1 in 1.6 trillion
Quantum effects cloak impossible singularities with black holes
Eve Online gamers will seek real exoplanets in virtual universe
Entire nervous system of an animal recorded for the first time
Gene editing opens doors to seedless fruit with no need for bees
Unprotected sex may disrupt the microbiome in vagina
Creative people physically see and process the world differently
Drone maps mines to explore unsafe caverns and seek out minerals
IN BRIEF
Physics of shoelaces shows why they come undone when you run
Mars’s atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn’t exist
4D printing makes objects that assemble themselves when heated
Robot volleyball machine helps Japan team practise attacks
Sea urchin emits a cloud of venomous jaws to deter predators
Fast CRISPR test easily detects Zika and antibiotic resistance
Oldest tooth filling was made by an Ice Age dentist in Italy
Water telescope uses gamma rays to track new kind of pulsar
ANALYSIS
Why a neonicotinoid ban isn’t enough to protect the environment
Marchers, raise your banners for the tortoise pace of progress
Simple equation shows how human activity is trashing the planet
We can still save the Great Barrier Reef from politicians
APERTURE
Marine life is rubbish… at least in these pictures
FEATURES
Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life
Your true self: Why it’s morals that make the human
Your true self: The future is a foreign person
Lazy fit animals: How some beasts get the gain without the pain
Rocks of ages: How meteorites reveal the solar system’s history
PEOPLE
The heretical passion of the man who first described Parkinson’s
CULTURE
A population paradox could help us outrun our doom
Love your anthropological collection? Then hand it back
More
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